Public-Health Candidates
Rile Pro-Choice Advocates

By

Frank Bass Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated May 21, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

Two candidates under consideration by Gov. George W. Bush for the state's top public-health job are drawing heavy fire from pro-choice advocates for their views on abortion, family planning and contraception.

William R. Archer III, a former official in President George Bush's administration, and Gary Crum, a former Reagan administration official for family planning, are finalists for the job. They would fill a post that became vacant...